Earlier than anticipated due to miscommunication abroad, Electronic Arts has now officially released the multiplayer demo of Battlefield 1942, and we have a local copy with mirrors of this 3D vehicular action game in development at Digital Illusions. The 130.2 MB download offers the Wake Island map that you can play in Conquest mode with up to 32 players.

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Re: BF42 MP attributes

Aug 18, 2002, 23:15

anon@24.162

#152 - Your problems with the game are common and many people are not enjoying the game-play because of the clowns but your solutions are just too stupid. The pilot or the timer idea just stink... sorry. The only way to solve these issues in this game or any other game is to not have friendly fire on... simple as that. Could you imagine if a game like Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 had friendly fire on? It would be crazy and everybody would be up in arms, just because this is WW2 based, does'nt mean it should be on. Public servers will always have clowns so you just got to make it hard for them to be a clown. Turn off all of the clown enabled tools like friendly fire. They will have no choice but to play the game.

The ticket system is flawed as well and should be replace with the frag, CTF points system so those clowns not participating, don't bring down the game by lowering tickets while they are doing their clowning around. Only positive actions should be awarded and negative actions should not take away from the team as a whole in public games like computer games where everyone is anonymouse. I had hoped that developers would know that but they grow older and forget about how people clowned so much when they were young and got off on causing trouble. Lets hope that defaults are changed on release because most people who run servers or use computers in general don't really know how to change stuff which is why it is so important that defaults are always setup to the best settings for the majority. Special events like private games or clan stuff can always change these settings but the public games are a whole different story.